Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
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The Opera folks are betting their browser has reached a threshold of popularity where they can unshackle it from the fees. This clearly is a volume play that could pay off if enough people use the browser. Opera would be able to drive revenue through affiliate relationships, for example.
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There are a number of ways Opera can make money off the browser, but all that requires volume. Removing the price tag and the banner ads increases the likelihood that more people will use the browser. More eyeballs means more revenue off the browser without charging for or putting banner ads in people's faces.
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While most companies understand the need to archive e-mails, they often overlook the need to archive instant messages. If there's a security breach with respect to messaging and the company doesn't properly archive the messages, it could lead to compliance problems.
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Windows Live is just the first step. Microsoft is building out all of its existing products, cross-connecting different features around communications and social networking.
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There are legal services for downloading music and movies,
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When you introduce something new, it disrupts, and this increases things like help desk costs and employee downtime. So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface and any hardships around the new file format, which are always disruptive. These are two big hurdles Microsoft has to get around.
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What Wallop is trying to create is a service that introduces 'real world' visual cues about the relationships to the online community.
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When you own a shopping mall and someone sets up a small business alongside of it, you still own the shopping mall.
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Unlike Windows Vista, I also don't see any major disturbance caused by 2007 delivery of the next Office version. Microsoft is smart to release both products together.
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We are reaching a point where the search engine becomes the basic interface for everything on a PC or computing system, including launching applications or files as well as finding information.
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We've got new versions coming next year. And Microsoft has the tough sell of convincing existing business customers and consumers that what they have isn't good enough.
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There is a lot of developer and consumer interest around these applications.
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The reality is that most of Microsoft's partners are also its closest competitors, but that's nothing new,
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The real test for Microsoft is whether it can take search to the next level.